Breathe

<SFTC: Breathe by Taylor Swift>

Chapter 34

"Okay, so, your favorite movie?" Tanner asks as he finally wraps up his laughing to toss a celery stick into his mouth. Apparently, he was on a so-called day-diet where he'd only drink water and eat fish or veggies for some workout regimen. We'd actually worked out a lot lately together, which is always fun. And we are actually approaching our one year anniversary.

"Easy. Love Actually, c'mon," I laugh, biting down on my own celery. He looks up, smiles for a second as if thinking about something, and then looks back at me. "What?"

"Oh, nothing," He says, a huge knowing smile spread across his lips. I narrow my eyes.

"Tanner Parks, you're hiding something and I intend on finding out what that secret is," I raise an eyebrow. We're both on the living room carpet, or rug, which has kind've become our seating of choice lately. It's comfortable down on the rug, not that the couch is anything less, it's just kinda our thing.

"It's a surprise. You'll see soon enough," He says, smirking. The only way I know how to try to get it out of him is to pout and puppy eyes, which is what I try. "Aw," He pulls me into his arms. "i try to be a good boyfriend, baby."

Baby. That's new. Baby. My throat feels dry. Also new.

"You do think I'm a good boyfriend, right baby?" He presses his lips into my neck from behind as I sit messily in his cross-legged lap. Again with the baby thing.

"You do know.. what you're doing is- it's driving me crazy," my speech starts slurring by the end of it as he reaches my jaw line.

"It's the idea," He whispers across the ear before kissing the skin under it.

"Tanner, st-stop," I mumble without much conviction. "About the movie.."

"You didn't answer my question," he murmurs against my neck, his lips brushing into a smile. The whole situation was getting way too comfortable right now. I sigh and turn to face him, settling one leg on either side of him.

"Yes, you're the best boyfriend. And what if I called you baby like that?" I laugh, pushing myself up to rise higher and position my lips right above his ear. "Baby." I whisper, giving my tone the sexiest tone I can based on every movie relatable. I rest my lips against his temple soon after.

I feel him swallow and slump in his position. "You're making this harder."

"You started it. Hey, I'll do that again if you tell me what your idea is?" I say, continuing to press light kisses to his neck. I can tell he's dragging on his response. As sneaky as you can get.

"Can't do that," He murmurs finally, quickly pushing his lips into mine before I can back out. His lips run over mine a few times before I pull out of his kiss and pout.

"I need a shower," I state with a sigh and stand up. Tanner sits staring up at me, most likely confused. His look of confusion disappears quickly, replaced with a defiant smirk that keeps showing up.

"Can I join you?" He wiggles his eyebrows around suggestively.

"You wish." I roll my eyes and return to the bathroom, suddenly finding the not-so-distant thought appearing that having him with me wouldn't be such a bad idea but I banish that one quickly.

•

"I hate working out," I groan, each breath ending up in deep heaves. I was on the elliptical thing for a good 40 minutes and I hate it, and people can see that I hate it and I'm struggling for every lunge and every single tv show is some stupid ad.

Tanner, on the other hand, had been doing weights for the past 20 minutes, the first 20 were spent doing pullups. He's sweating but he doesn't seem half as out of breath as I do.

He smiles at me from his position on the lifting bench. "You say that every few minutes."

"I know.." I groan once again and pull myself over to the metal bars to do this weird cardio type thing Karlie's trainer taught me. It's an exercise where I put my leg up on the bar and stretch and do these things, it's horrible but it's apart of the workout.

Tanner takes his last part of his workout by doing situps. With him in a tight fitting black underarmor sleeveless shirt, it was extremely hard to hear him grunting after every situp. Not that I wasn't focused on the taxing work going on with getting this cardio workout wasn't hard enough..